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SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Special Issue on William Faulkner in Journal of the Short Story in English
DESCRIPTION:JSSE 90 (Spring 2028) \nGuest edited by: \n\nFrançoise Buisson\,Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour\nSolveig M. Dunkel\, Université de Lille\nFrédérique Spill\, Université de Picardie Jules Verne\, president of the William Faulkner Society.\n\n\nDeadline for abstract submissions: 30 October 2026 \n\n\nSuggested Proposals\nThe purpose of this special issue of JSSE is thus to examine the challenges faced by Faulkner as a short story writer\, especially—but not exclusively: \n\nthe status of the short story in Faulkner’s work and its reception\neconomic imperatives and consumerism\nexperimentation and short fiction as “a creative writing workshop”\nFaulkner’s play with the traditional forms\, conventions and contents of the genre: narrative technique\, stylistic devices and strategies\, punctuation and typography\nFaulkner’s phenomenological writing\, his writing of sensation\nellipsis and the unspeakable; condensation and proliferation\nFaulkner’s use of different chronotopes and his handling of chronology\nmeta/short fiction and the mise en abyme of short story writing\nthe Southern Gothic\norality\, cock-and-bull stories and tall tales\, short fiction and humor\, Frontier humor\nthe ecopoetic dimension in wilderness short stories\ninitiation in the short story and for the short story teller\nchildhood and children as story-tellers and/or characters\nmargins in the short story: the community and the individual; race and gender relations for example\nqueer Faulkner
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-william-faulkner-in-journal-of-the-short-story-in-english/
CATEGORIES:Call for Papers
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: The Bedford Competition 2026
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \n\nChance of winning up to £2000 in the short story and poetry main prizes.\nSeparate short story and poetry prize winning categories for those aged 17-25 and for local Bedford residents.\n\n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-the-bedford-competition-2026/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261117
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers: The Short Story in the Transnational Press (XIX-XXI Centuries)
DESCRIPTION:The Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE) and the Transfopress Research Network are hosting a bilingual study day / journée d’étude in Paris\, France (venue to be announced) on Friday\, 2 April 2027\, focusing on “The Short Story in the Transnational Press (XIX-XXI Centuries).” For over forty years the JSSE has been publishing research on the short story; and for over a decade\, the Transfopress Research Network has been studying the emergence and expansion of transnational newspapers\, magazines\, and other media communicated in languages other than the official languages of the countries where they are produced. The recent publication of The Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries\, 1800–1914 [google.com] (University of Edinburgh Press\, edited by Diana Cooper-Richet\, Isabelle Richet\, Jennifer Hayward\, and Michelle Prain-Brice ) has uncovered the rich history of the transnational English-language press over the long nineteenth century. It is therefore an opportune time to take a closer look at the role of the short story within this press as well as expanding the geographical and historical scope of study. We plan to have a half day focusing on the short story in the transnational press in English and a half day focusing on the transnational press in other languages\, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The following are some suggestions for questions that might be explored: \n\nWhich short-fiction writers are being published in this press?\nWhich genres of short stories are being published in this press?\nAre the stories original publications\, reprints\, piracies\, translations\, or the first seeds of later stories or larger works?\nAre there overlooked or forgotten stories to be uncovered in this press?\nWhat role is there for the amateur author and the short story competition in this press?\nHow might these stories be serving the communities these publications support?\n\nPapers can be delivered in English or in French. Please submit a 250-word abstract of your paper and short 50-word biography by 16 November 2026 to colette.colligan@univ-angers.fr\, gerald.preher@univ-artois.fr\, and diana.cooper-richet@uvsq.fr. We will respond within a couple of weeks to announce which papers have been selected for the study day. This event is organised in partnership with the ‘Nouvelles et formes brèves’ research group\, which is part of the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les patrimoines en langues et en littératures (CIRPaLL) at the University of Angers.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/call-for-papers-the-short-story-in-the-transnational-press-xix-xxi-centuries/
CATEGORIES:Call for Papers
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SUMMARY:ENSFR Event: Short Story Anthologies Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:This ENSFR event brings together leading voices in contemporary short‑story scholarship. Chaired by Elke D’hoker\, this session features Paul Delaney (Trinity College\, Ireland) and Aleix Tura‑Vecino (University of Glasgow\, UK)\, both of whom have recently published major studies on the short‑story anthology: Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction: Magnitudes of Telling (Routledge 2025) and The Short Story Anthology and Women’s Writing (Routledge 2025). \nEach speaker will discuss the research behind their books — from the evolution of anthology practices to the cultural\, political and editorial questions that shape how short stories are collected and presented. Together\, the panel will explore current debates in anthology studies and reflect on where the field is heading.  \nTo join this online event\, please click on the Teams link below.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/ensfr-event-short-story-anthologies-roundtable/
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SUMMARY:Submission Deadline: Special Issue of Short Fiction in Theory & Practice | Writing Across Languages: Anglophone Short Stories by Multilingual Authors
DESCRIPTION:Special Issue | Writing Across Languages: Anglophone Short Stories by Multilingual Authors \nGuest edited by Elsa Court (University of Oxford)\, Nina Ellis (The American University in Cairo)\, and Sonya Moor (Manchester Metropolitan University). \nIn ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ Ernest Hemingway uses a Spanish expression to insinuate the linguistic reality of a geographic location that is experienced only in passing. ‘Dos cervezas\,’ says one of his two central characters\, a man introduced as ‘the American\,’ whom we understand is in a precarious relationship with a younger woman\, also a native English speaker. For the duration of the five-page story\, the couple sit at a table in the shade of a café while waiting for a train to Madrid\, discussing the future of their relationship in coded terms. They continue ordering drinks presumably still in Spanish — but after the mention of ‘Dos cervezas’\, this second language is presumed\, rather than transcribed. The rest of the story — including further exchanges with the bar owner — is written entirely in English. \nThe literary fiction landscape has dramatically changed since the time when\, as Hilary Mantel put it\, a young writer was systematically advised to avoid using foreign language expressions in her prose\, for fear of sounding ‘elitist’ to the Anglo-American reader. Moreover\, the globalisation of Anglophone creative expression means that not all fiction written in English today is produced from imaginations that think only — or even primarily — in English\, even when that is the primary language of their texts. \nInternational\, peer-reviewed Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (Intellect Books) is proud to invite original short-story submissions for a practice-based special issue to be published in September 2027\, entitled ‘Writing Across Languages: Anglophone Short Stories by Multilingual Authors’. The issue will bring together inventive works of contemporary short fiction\, written primarily in English\, but also incorporating interplay with one or more other languages. \nThe editors invite submissions of up to 5\,000 words that make use of at least one language other than English or find ways of gesturing towards other languages within their narratives. \nThere is no minimum word count. \nDeadline for submissions: 1st December 2026. \nPlease visit the Short Fiction in Theory and Practice website for submission guidelines at: https://www.intellectbooks.com/short-fiction-in-theory-practice \nFor informal enquiries please contact Principal Editor Ailsa Cox (coxa@edgehill.ac.uk).
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/submission-deadline-special-issue-of-short-fiction-in-theory-practice-writing-across-languages-anglophone-short-stories-by-multilingual-authors/
CATEGORIES:Submission Deadline
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SUMMARY:ENSFR Event: Short Forms Beyond Borders\, A Retrospective on the Erasmus+ Project
DESCRIPTION:How can short forms help us respond to the challenges of a globalised Europe? \nJoin researchers and educators from the six partner universities of the Erasmus+ project Short Forms Beyond Borders (SFBB) for a retrospective roundtable on Tuesday December 1st\, at 6:30pm(GMT) / 7:30(CET). Panelists will look back at the project’s founding ambitions\, assess key outcomes\, and debate whether and how short form studies are facing new challenges in the cultural landscape of contemporary Europe. \nThe Short Forms Beyond Borders project was an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership between the Universities of Angers (France)\, Giessen (Germany)\, Leuven (Belgium)\, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)\, Szeged (Hungary)\, and the Baludik company (Nantes\, France) with an aim of developing innovative pedagogical programmes that involve the use of short forms.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/ensfr-event/
LOCATION:Teams
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270116
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SUMMARY:Call for Chapter Proposals: The Oxford Handbook of Carson McCullers 
DESCRIPTION:Call for Chapter Proposals — The Oxford Handbook of Carson McCullers \nEditor: Carlos Dews\, John Cabot University\, Rome\nDeadline for proposals: 15 January 2027\nContact: cdews@johncabot.edu \nA more detailed version of this Call for Chapter Proposals can be found via THIS LINK. Please consult it before submitting a chapter proposal. \nCarson McCullers remains one of the most distinctive and influential American writers of the twentieth century. Her fiction\, drama\, essays\, journalism\, poetry\, letters\, and other writings continue to generate important scholarship in American literature\, Southern studies\, modernism\, queer studies\, disability studies\, childhood and adolescence studies\, race and regional studies\, affect theory\, life writing\, music and sound studies\, adaptation\, and archival research. Recent biographies\, archival discoveries\, documentary and musical projects\, and the publication of previously unavailable materials have opened new possibilities for understanding McCullers’s life\, work\, and cultural legacy. \nProposals are invited for contributions to The Oxford Handbook of Carson McCullers\, which will bring together established and emerging scholars to provide the first comprehensive handbook devoted to McCullers. The volume seeks both authoritative overviews of established areas of McCullers scholarship and innovative essays that introduce new questions\, methodologies\, archives\, comparisons\, and interdisciplinary approaches. \nThe Handbook will be organized into six sections: \n\n Life\, Archives\, and Historical Worlds\nII. The Works: Textual Histories\, Genres\, and Career Contexts\nIII. Bodies\, Genders\, Sexualities\nIV. Race\, Region\, Citizenship\, and Social Difference\nV. Form\, Feeling\, and Intellectual Genealogies\nVI. Reception\, Influence\, Adaptation\, and Global McCullers\n\nPossible topics include\, but are not limited to: \nMcCullers’s biography\, letters\, recordings\, archives\, and literary networks \nThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\, Reflections in a Golden Eye\, The Member of the Wedding\, The Ballad of the Sad Café\, and Clock Without Hands \nShort fiction\, drama\, essays\, journalism\, poetry\, and unfinished writing \nQueer desire\, gender nonconformity\, adolescence\, marriage\, masculinity\, and nonnormative kinship \nDisability\, illness\, embodiment\, bodily difference\, and freak aesthetics \nRace\, segregation\, whiteness\, Blackness\, ethnicity\, region\, citizenship\, class\, and labor \nLoneliness\, love\, communion\, affect\, empathy\, and belonging \nVoice\, silence\, listening\, music\, and sound \nModernism\, Gothic form\, narrative form\, and formal experimentation \nPsychoanalysis\, religion\, ethics\, philosophy\, and literary influence \nBiography\, reception history\, and McCullers’s twenty-first-century rediscovery \nStage\, film\, opera\, music\, and other adaptations \nTranslation\, comparative approaches\, and global reception \nTeaching\, archives\, public humanities\, literary houses\, museums\, and literary tourism \nWe particularly welcome proposals that extend McCullers studies into new methodological and disciplinary areas\, including critical race studies\, transgender studies\, performance and media studies\, international and comparative approaches\, and work by scholars outside the United States. The Handbook seeks a productive balance between established scholars and newer voices and welcomes proposals from scholars whose primary expertise lies in fields adjacent to McCullers studies. \nPlease submit a 300-500 word chapter proposal\, together with a brief biographical statement or CV\, by 15 January 2027 to cdews@johncabot.edu. Proposals should identify the proposed chapter’s central argument\, primary texts or materials\, methodology\, and contribution to the Handbook. \nCompleted chapters will be approximately 6000-9000 words and will be due 15 February 2028.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/call-for-chapter-proposals-the-oxford-handbook-of-carson-mccullers/
CATEGORIES:Call for Papers
ORGANIZER;CN="Carlos Dews%2C John Cabot University%2C Rome":MAILTO:cdews@johncabot.edu
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SUMMARY:Event: The Short Story in the Transnational Press (XIX-XXI Centuries)\, Bilingual Study Day
DESCRIPTION:The Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE) and the Transfopress Research Network are hosting a bilingual study day / journée d’étude in Paris\, France (venue to be announced) on Friday\, 2 April 2027\, focusing on “The Short Story in the Transnational Press (XIX-XXI Centuries).” For over forty years the JSSE has been publishing research on the short story; and for over a decade\, the Transfopress Research Network has been studying the emergence and expansion of transnational newspapers\, magazines\, and other media communicated in languages other than the official languages of the countries where they are produced. The recent publication of The Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries\, 1800–1914 [google.com] (University of Edinburgh Press\, edited by Diana Cooper-Richet\, Isabelle Richet\, Jennifer Hayward\, and Michelle Prain-Brice ) has uncovered the rich history of the transnational English-language press over the long nineteenth century. It is therefore an opportune time to take a closer look at the role of the short story within this press as well as expanding the geographical and historical scope of study. We plan to have a half day focusing on the short story in the transnational press in English and a half day focusing on the transnational press in other languages\, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The following are some suggestions for questions that might be explored: \n\nWhich short-fiction writers are being published in this press?\nWhich genres of short stories are being published in this press?\nAre the stories original publications\, reprints\, piracies\, translations\, or the first seeds of later stories or larger works?\nAre there overlooked or forgotten stories to be uncovered in this press?\nWhat role is there for the amateur author and the short story competition in this press?\nHow might these stories be serving the communities these publications support?\n\nPapers can be delivered in English or in French. Please submit a 250-word abstract of your paper and short 50-word biography by 16 November 2026 to colette.colligan@univ-angers.fr\, gerald.preher@univ-artois.fr\, and diana.cooper-richet@uvsq.fr. We will respond within a couple of weeks to announce which papers have been selected for the study day. This event is organised in partnership with the ‘Nouvelles et formes brèves’ research group\, which is part of the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les patrimoines en langues et en littératures (CIRPaLL) at the University of Angers.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-the-short-story-in-the-transnational-press-xix-xxi-centuries-bilingual-study-day/
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Conference: The 18th International Conference on the Short Story in English  
DESCRIPTION:A Resounding Bell: The Call of the Short Story \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe ICSSE is a five-day conference comprising pre-conference workshops\, plenaries\, author readings\, public reading sessions\, panels\, and paper presentations\, as well as social events such as a pre-conference reception\, a closing banquet and\, sightseeing activities. \nThe conference will focus on the craft of writing both short stories and creative non-fiction in its various forms and designs as well as its accompanying criticism and scholarship. Special panels include teaching creative writing in schools and tertiary institutions\, children’s literature\, young adult fiction\, and translated works into English from Chinese\, Tamil\, Portuguese\, Korean\, Spanish\, and many other languages. All readings and papers will be given in English. \n\n\nLike a resounding bell\, the short story calls us together for the 18th International Conference on the Short Story in English. \nThe ringing of a bell—like the writing and reading of a short story—calls us into wonder\, sometimes into disturbance\, and always deepens our understanding of the human condition. The short story\, as Frank O’Connor states\, lifts up the perspectives and voices of “submerged populations” and those who have otherwise been silenced. The ICSSE celebrates the lonely voice from across the globe by creating a space for short story writers and scholars to share their passion for the genre. \nWe gather to honor the short story\, its history\, its many forms\, its continuing evolution in the contemporary moment. We present this theme not as a creative restraint for the conference but rather so that writers of fiction in English and writers whose work has been translated into English\, might ring the bell of the short story\, loudly and clearly.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/conference-the-18th-international-conference-on-the-short-story-in-english/
LOCATION:Hendrix College\, 1600 Washington Ave. Conway\, AR 72032
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